cosmo.

there’s now a publicly-available recording of our RustWeek talk. it went extremely well, and I’m very proud of our work on it. talk is viewable @ youtu.be/Gx21yYLwn10 slides are hosted @ asteri.sm/assets/pdfs/...

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

Update on yesterday's post about Anthropic ripping off Mononoke:

I’ll take you to Havnor and say to the princes of Earthsea, “Look! In the place of darkness I found the light, her spirit. By her an old evil was brought to nothing. By her I was brought out of the grave. By her the broken was made whole, and where there was hatred there will be peace.”

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

CS improv troupe who realizes they can build any scene out of "Yes NAND"

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

bristol is a pretty cool place

Now THAT'S some good shit

allocator stabilisation FCP passed. we're getting stable allocators in rust 1.100. we've never been so back github.com/rust-lang/ru...

it smells like heredoc in here

Do not upload your brain into a computer

my friend wrote a blog post about rust's never type, and specifically the misconception that has been ragebaiting me ever since I stabilized it go read it !!

[all that is solid melting into air] well, at least all that is holy won’t be profaned!

blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/

new page on my site has some pretty cetz svgs i wasted several hours on: asteri.sm/pages/networ...

"utility monster" as in "utility closet"; a handy all-purpose monster

Extremely psyched about The Elder Scrolls VI, apparently it's going to have proper classes, arrow functions, block-scoped variables with `const` and `let`...

A new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous

this rules

vimes is perceptive when it comes to people. he understands that the upper class of ankh-morpork are hardly a meritocracy. he knows that *something* is up. but, i think, as a consummate policeman, it's hard for him to recognize legally-protected stationary bandits as the problem.

Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. —E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909) @miq.moe

Imagining a social platform where if you use a fraught word like “knowledge” or “consciousness”, it pops up a list of interpretations of that word from the relevant SEP article and you have to select which one you mean. Then you get a short quiz on the common objections before you can post.

slowly slipping away from making graphs for the sake of understanding towards making graphs for the sake of how cool it is to have lots of graphs

I just need more irons in the fire

regex 1.13 now has a `regex!` macro (NOT compile time regex) that encapsulates the common pattern of using something like `std::sync::LazyLock` to ensure it only compiles ~once. github.com/rust-lang/re...

Went to Battle at the Burgh #6 over the weekend and saw some awesome robots tear each other apart ^^

farewell and goodnight #SIGNALIS

'Obsessive Optimization with String Interning' by Arya Dradjica at RustWeek 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRL... #rustlang #RustWeek

Early attempts at mitigating UB

there are beautiful things in the world

video game quicktime event where someone says "why shouldn't i kill you" and you have a timed dialog choice of A. appeal to virtue ethics B. appeal to deontological ethics C. appeal to consequentialism

“On Exactitude in Science”

where we're going, we won't need EUV machines

"The HTTP QUERY Method" by @jreschke https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008

two chess engine talk videos published within 24 hours! I love the contrast between @asteri.sm doing absolutely wild things to make a cutting edge engine, and us gleamlins bumbling around trying to make them without u64s :) great work to @gearsco.de though, awesome talk! youtu.be/D_HaX_O1TAo

the discoveries: i can actually get some color tone depth in 590 false color if i don't totally crush the reds, and i can revive monotone red images by simply making them black and white. standish-hickey SRA and humboldt redwoods, x-pro 1, 590nm, stupid soft ttartisan AF lens i hate.

Looking at stories through the lens of the Monomyth keeps us from considering more interesting interpretations such as

“no silver bullet” is one of those ideas which has poisoned the discourse around programming. You can dismiss any process improvement by just saying there’s no silver bullet. I don’t think I’ve ever read a comment which reminds us of this fact that was worth reading.

HATETRIS for Grice-admissible ambiguities in the Twenty Questions Game/Who Am I?

yeah, he seems like the moveable type

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY VALENCE!!